flix fix: children of men
a must see! i’ve never had a better movie experience on a plane that being glued to this on an air canada jazz flight. booya - one of the best of ‘06 fo sho. Cuarón ist geni.
Archive for May, 2007
scrabble
just passing it along
Keep it going. Scrabble….
CHANGE ONE LETTER OF THE BOTTOM WORD POSTED AND SEE WHO GETS STUCK AND CAN’T CONTINUE!
RULES: YOU CANNOT ADD ANY MORE LETTERS YOU CANNOT USE FOREIGN LANGUAGES YOU CAN ONLY CHANGE ONE LETTER Send it back to the person that sent it to you, plus 10 new people. Remember you are only concerned with the last word in the list, not all the words.
STARTING WORD: foot
Hannah - boot
Mary -bout
Dan - boat
Taylor - coat
Nat - coal
Brian - cool
Bryan - fool
Amy - tool
Sami - pool
Sarah - wool
Kasey - woof
Lori - hoof
Katie - roof
Bon - root
Lisa - hoot
Colleen - coot
Yvonne - cook
Karen - look
Audrey - took
Bonnie - book
Charlie - hook
Nan - honk
Audrey - hank
Jeannette -hunk
Bette -dunk
Molly -punk
Bev - hunk
Ernie- sunk
Phyllis - junk
Sharon - June
Jane - tune
Linda - tone
Bruce - bone
Lisa - lone
Helen - gone
Midge - done
Sherlin - cone
Vivian - none
Dora - zone
Jean - hone
Sally - home
Mary - come
Tim - dome
Yesi - some
Teri - same
Donna - sage
Emilie - cage
Betty - page
Dick - pale
Laura- bale
Kate - male
Barb - mole
Susie - pole
Rebecca - poke
Janet - joke
Angie - toke
Laureen - coke
Lori - code
Vickie - rode
Sabrina - rose
Leslie - rise
Denise - rite
Sheri - rate
Sharon - rats
Linda - cats
Carolyn - mats
Jamie- mate
Becky - mite
Michelle - mice
Brenda - dice
Cheryl - lice
Jody - lick
Linda - wick
Felicia - kick
SharI - sick
Whitney - suck
Heather - tuck
Brenda - duck (I’m not going to be the one to say it!) Betty - dock (you thought it was going to be something else, didn’t You?) Vicki - sock Helen - cock (a faucet or valve for regulating flow of liquid - just Want to be clear) It’s also a farm animal.
Barbara - mock
Carol - lock
Sheri - jock
Pam - jack
Eva - back
Michelle - lack
Angie - lace
Kathy- face
Angie - fact
Julie - fart
Mel - farm
Debbie - fare
Lisa - dare
Margaret - bare
Petra - care
Don - mare
Mary Jo - mart
Karen - cart
Ellen - dart
Ann - darn
Meghan - yarn
Jana - barn
Lisa - born
Sheila - corn
Dana - cork
Carol - pork
Cheri - port
Chris - part
Tina - park
Erica - lark
Lou - hark (You know, Harold’s angels singing) Robyn - dark Jacque - dank Helen -dunk Delisa - dune Bethany - Dane Nicole - done
Kayla- Bone
Lisa - Zone
Angie W -Tone
Danita V. - none
Suzy - lone (as in Lone Ranger..lol)
JoAnn - gone
Gayle - gene
Lorri - gena (I was desparate for a word and found this one in the Dictionary, it means the cheek or lateral side of the face) Margie - gent Sandy - bent Merrikay -beet Rhonda-feet SARA-FEEL Sheila-feed Mary Ann - need Pat - seed Holly-heed Deb - weld Christina - held Cheryl - help Kurt - kelp Kristie - yelp Kim - yell Brandi - hell Conal - bell Lesley-fell Kevin - Felt Gail - melt Sharon - belt Terry - pelt Linda - welt Kim - well Denise - will Bernie-hill Patti - fill Judy-film Joy - form Sandy - fort Mark Lynn - fork Laura - cork Coreen - cord Marcel–lord Pauline -lard Jo-Anne-card Kelly - care Julie - cage Roxy - came Frankie-game Glenda - lame Leslie - fame Jane - same Lynne - lake Karen - fake Anna - make Sue - bake Patricia - cake Fern - care Eileen rare Hilda - mare Gerry - male Jim - malt Jeanne - salt Jack - bale Brian - ball April - wall Beth - walk Shannon - balk (MLB playoffs are on) Heather - bank Marlie - tank Karen - talc Karon - tale Freda - gale Jill - gala Stephanie - gaga Carla - saga Sandy - rage
Shirley- wage
Sherry - cage…..wow, that was easy….
Lisa- cave
Lorraine - save
Bob - gave
Heather - have (I’m guessing that this game will eventually have to go back to the word ‘foot’) Janice - hive Silvy - give Marsha-live Lise - jibe Jenifer - vibe Carla - gibe (to shake or handle roughly) Esther - kibe ( an ulcerated chilblain, esp on the heel) I learned two new words on this one Renee-kite Patty - site Chris - bite Patti - bile Kevin - wile
Gail- file
Jim - fife
Allan- Life
Michele - line
Ian - lint
Stella - mint
Sylvia - mind
Hilda - find
Tanya - Bind
Dalene - bend
John- send
Adrian - seed
Brenda - feed
Nicki - fled
Karin - bled
Ingrid - sled
Pat - lead
Julie - bead
Julie - dead
Winks - head
Alex and Mary - held
Wilna - weld
Des - wild
Paddy-gild
Kalpana - gold
Shamilla - sold
NIRVANA - COLD
Niren - Hold
MICHELLE - TOLD
Ronelle - Toll
Roberta - Tall
Viloshni - Talk
Samantha - Tale
Penny - Male
Janice rale
Camilla - Rule
Cavn - Rile
Charlene - Wile
Charmaine - Life
Carmen - Lift
Chimonique - Left
Christien - Loft
Saartjie - Loot
IK - Lost
SC - Lose
rudolph - dose
Christie - seed
Paul - Need
Dave - Weed
Frank - Weep
Pat - Deep
Margery - Seep
Eileen - Seek
Claire - Meek
Sue - Meet
Linda - Meat
Amanda - Meal
Natalie - Deal
Lynne - Seal
Fran - Teal
Linda - Tear J
enny - Bear
Jan - Year
Elaine - Pear A
lexia - Peat
Christel - Beat
Adrienne - Bear
Liz - Beer
Dorothy - Beef
Libby - reef
Linda - reel
Barbara—-real
Linda — read J
ane - bead
Pat - beam
Nancy - seam
Jayne - team
Diana -tear
Norm - teal
Barbara - seal
Jane - seat
Arilla - beat
Bill - heat
Ed - hear
John - Bear
John T - sear
Marg- tear
Betty- teat
Marg teas
Sandy-peas
April-peat J
oelle-neat
Cécile- feat
Vera-feet
Linda- fees
Mary Jane - bees
Louise - beet
Yvonne - beep,well it took a while but I found one. Jacquie - keep (it going…………………….) April - Kelp Maria - help Genevieve - held Laurie - Head Sue - heal Karen- peal
ALINE- seal
Josee - Sell
Kelly - Tell
Sony - Fell
Rhonda - felt
Melissa - feet
Krystal- Feel
Terry - Peel
Grant - Peep
Marg - Deep
Dianne - deer
Laura - tear
Darrell - bear
Bev - rear
Val - fear
Norma-dear
RUTH–Hear
Maggie-Head
Paula - Dead
Kristin - deed
Wanda - deem
Bev - teem
Clydean - team
Pat - beam
Max - bean
Martha - lean
Charlie - mean
DEE dean
Wilma - dear
Don - deaf
Connie - leaf
Lucy - lead
Wade - Meed
Dianne - Mend
Penny - Send
Dyann - Lend
Jill - Pend
Denise - Vend
Amy - rend
Jackie - Rene
Paula - Reno
Suzanne - Rent
Kathy - Vent
Betsy - Bent
Karen - Beat
Dawn-Meat
Marilyn - Meet
Carolyn - meek
Adrene- peek
Vanessa- seek
Carol - seed
Tammie - feed
Debbie - need
Mary–deed
Peggy–weed
Lucy-week
Rosie - weak
Carmen - leak
Nish- lean
Donnae-bean
Ebaneke- beak
Alexis-Peak
Beth-peck
Ida-pick
Cindy-tick
Jim-tuck
Tom-luck
Laura -puck
Bernice - duck
Denine - deck
Heather - dock
Jill - bock (strong dark rich beer usually sold in the early spring)
Wendy - book
Karen- boot
me - bovt (short for the bovernment which ownz your tax paying nass)
Don’t forget: Send it back to the person that sent it to you, plus 10 new people and delete all forwarding addresses at the top of this email before sending. iF YOU CUT AND PASTE THE MESSAGE IT WILL REMAIN CLEANER.
MGOC: Calexico (orig. aired 2.06.07)
song performed: “Roka” from the album Garden Ruin
conan’s reaction: “that was great. thank you. *shakes elec guitar hand* thank you very much *shakes joey’s hand* that was fantastic, gentlemen *shakes john’s hand and trumpet 2* that’s good. calexico! that is our show. I do want to thank all of our guests. I want to thank dr. phil. I want to thank emily deschanel. stay tuned for last call with carson daly. bye everybody bah bye! *shakes drummer, shakes upright bass, shakes keys, talks with joey*”
how hilarious is vomiting kermit?
I have three carrot coupons behind why I find this band so derned seductive
- I partially grew up in San Diego, which was:
a) close to the actual city of Calexico in California - not to be confused with Mexicali on the other side of the border
b) a big fan city of this band - i remember going to the Casbah and seeing posters from years past for Calexico. a lot of the local record stores dig these guys (sames goes for black heart procession, …and you will know us by the trail of the dead, and even that jason mraz dude)
- I played trumpet in high school - it is a damn cool instrument and as I sit on my butt here writing this, I am thinking I should take it back up again. so seductive.
- I played and sang in a cumbia band Los Chiviricos for one month for two summers. this is a southwest version of that maybe
it’s the day of the dead and we’re all bonded with the pirate clan camping off the river in baja california. thank god someone brought a few trumpet players (two!!!!!) and a band with a standup bass. it’s a beautifully seductive song and a wild range of characters. thickly layered like dolce de leche cakes from years past. joey burns is a uci alum I believe and look where he’s at. i hope he makes the alum newsletter every edition. i mean these cats worked with victoria williams and richard buckner.
I guess this is more a reflection and realization for myself. I played the trumpet always thinking it was too high of ego for myself. now i realize it is perfecion.
MGOC: Lily Allen (orig. aired 2.13.07)
song performed: “Smile” from the album Alright, Still
conan’s reaction: “that was great. thank you so much. that was fantastic. *shakes lily’s hand* lily allen everybody, that is our show, do want to thank all of our guests - eva langoria, fred willard, stay tuned for last call with carson daly. bye everybady goodbye. see you tomorrow *bens in to talk with lily*”
Lily’s so cute, er at least interesting, and her song is also so cute. she’s up on stage with clean cut bangs, perfectly straight hair, a bit of a larger black dress on which is cooled out with white sneaker tops. Smile is one of those repetitious songs that gets you hooked, but when you listen to the lyrics there is a bit of a bite to it all.
Lily has the online presence that most marketing gurus dream about, but it has been a presence filled with over-drinking, spats with cameramen, and an over all exhaustion from hitting the top so young so fast. check her out - she tries to bear some guts across her myspace and webpage blogs. Just like I bear 15% of my guts across these conan posts.
I really enjoyed this performance for what it’s worth. Lily’s not stunningly beautiful. She doesn’t bear magic, but just seems like someone to hang with. and her crew is also cute wearing their matching polo shirts. It’s like 7th grade jazz band, but dern good and with free cookies afterward. but just like seeing mickey mouse pass out backstage at disneyland on a 90 degree weekend - there is a dark side to every cookie. especially if it’s the trader joe’s chocolate dunkers - man those are good!
MGOC: Mando Diao
song performed: “Long Before Rock’n'roll” from the album Ode to Ochrasy
conan’s reaction: “Wow! that was great! *shakes lead 1 hand* sounds like they mean it *shakes lead 2 hand* mando diao everybody we’ll take a break, we’ll be right back. *claps four times, shakes bassist hand*”
us network television debut! nice!
so mando diao has been around theoretically since the days of boy meets world. they’re a swedish band, and along the lines of their brotters The Hives, Düngen, and even those cute The Cardigans - they represent garage punk rock, but in a much cleaner form. and I think cleaner all around. there were nods to the Hives on stage, only instead of white ties on black dress, it was black sweater vests over white work shirts.
I found tonight’s performance entertaining. the two leads (one of them is daniel and/or björn?) brought out their Swedish minimalism, sharing a single mic which they went back and forth in rounds of lyrics. the song started out looking at the audience and quickly picked up energy. there was no messing around - veins promptly popped out of necks during shouting, hair that was tennis star length started shaking, and pillow was pronounced “peeeelow”.
there was a lot of energy throughout the song. monitor speakers were decorated with what looked like a lot of crayon coloring. I specifically like the anthem “la la la’s” toward the end, which I find is a big part of Swedish rock.
MGOC: The Academy Is…
song performed: “Neighbors” from the album Santi
conan’s reaction: “hey. thanks so much. *shakes William’s hand* The Academy Is everybody. That is our show. I want to thank all of our guests. Mike Myers, our thanks to seth rogen for being here, stay tuned to last call with carson daly, bye everybody bye. *shakes bass, shakes drum, shakes guitar 2, huddles with bass lead and guitar 2 and chats*”
hey I found out something neat. Their record label is called “Fueled By Ramen”, completing the sentence:
The Academy Is… Fueled By Ramen.
front man william is tall and lanky and all in black with bits of pale belly showing when he stretches out. I found his monica lewinsky hair to decently frame his symmetric face in a kind of pretty way for this music like maybe he has a good sense of humor. The rest of the band is a bit shorter with hairdo or tattoo pushed out further.
mics were set up for everyone, although I noticed the tank top drummer did most of the singing. it was a short song and pretty straitforward, but an example of what happens when two rival bands get together and add the word “is” to their name. take that barrett jackman!
MGOC: Loudon Wainwright III
song performed: “Daughter” from the album Strange Weirdos
conan’s reaction: “Don’t watch the strain on me. Thank you so much *shakes Loudon’s hand* that was fantastic. Loudon Wainright the third, we’ll take a break, we’ll be right back *claps three times* that was great *touches Loudon’s shoulders and has a chat*”
la venda: I’d sing a song about a man and his singing life, but that’s so Loudon, er even Wainwright. I know of Loudon mainly from his son and daughter - also great songwriters - Rufus and Martha. He came from writing, married a songwriter, had songwriting babies, and is still touring - only this is my parent’s generation - so the images and fans on myspace are small and tour schedule is and “itinerary”.
Loudon is cool, comes from the generation of cool. Yeah, there was the stint on M.A.S.H., but right now Loudon is hot stuff because he bumped heads with Judd Apatow on the recent(ish) release Knocked Up, where Loudon provides the soundtrack. I dig Judd, whom I came across from 2000’s Freak & Geeks TV series. This is good stuff, almost crazy how the paths of people you dig come closer than you think. When I learned this weekend that a friend I’ve met up here went to school with Seth Rogen of same movie and TV series - I’m right at the crossroads.
l’exécution: It’s funny because I don’t see rufus in loudon’s face so much, for sure when he was younger. The setup was nice and relaxed, a bit of a country theme - big acoustic geetar, lap guitar and accordion (french country?).
Loudon is wearing dad jeans, kind of a denim wrangler jean that tapers, and looks relaxed in his kashmir navy v. It’s a short by sweet performance and a great movie song (reminiscent of a simon and garfunkel moment on garden state). Loudon has his strings in these funky loops - very folk cool.
altre note: I like Loudon’s site - a very wii friendly “lwiii.com” Loudon was David Letterman’s band-hand-man in the super early days. can you imagine the soft folk sound of Loudon vs. the jazzy Schaeffer? blastphemy!
MGOC: Rickie Lee Jones
song performed: “Falling Up” from the album The Sermon On Exposition Blvd.
conan’s reaction: “Thank you so much that was fantastic. *shakes Rickie’s hand* Thank you. Rickie Lee Jones everybody, we’ll take a break, we’ll be right back *claps three times, leans in to talk to Rickie, shakes guitar hand*.”
holy biscuit soda can. it has been a while since I’ve put pen to paper to write about conan and music. so let’s get it started like apple d already. did you miss my conanigans? I’m back datings these entries till we’re all caught up - cause A) who’s going to read them anyway and B) yesterday’s vinegar doesn’t necessarily mix well with today’s eggs if you know what I mean. enjoy again!
la venda: rickie, self-proclaimed “dutchess of coolsville” (ironically uncool?), probably deserves a “where are they now?” two-minny blip on vh-1 …HOWEVER…stop the presses cause she’s like so today anyway. like duh. just do a search for “Have You Had Enough?” and check out one of a million videos of what is essentially Squirrel Nut Zipper’s “Put a Lid on It” with quasi new lyrics and less of that nutty zip. it’s like the political mashup jib jab of today.
I know that Rickie had a hit when she had a crush on Chuck D from Public Enemy and sang ’bout it, but other than that I only know what I hear. it’s smooth. it’s a touch soulful and nasal and freespirited and kind of girlish as well. totally unique and no relation to tommy.
l’exécution: it’s a tom-tom song, and at first I was thinking this was a long intro. but low-and-beeswax it was a momentum building the hole song! Rickie looks like a wise professor or art curator dressed in black who just appened to strap on a geetar. by the second stanza the band is on their primary instruments with keyboard beard toque man still pounding away on the tambs.
Rickie’s voice is still in great shape, maybe not really aging at all. About a third of the way through she started gesturing as well and a loud long note was nice and controlled. Keyboard man will not put down the tambourine. put it down put it down.
“Do you know my name?” time got a little bit spasmy, but was still great and you could see good emotional from Rickie Lee Jones that she was right at home on stage again.
altre note: Rickie Lee Jones wrote the song “Chuck E’s in Love” when she was dating Tom Waits. that may not sound cool, but Chuck E. was a real person - Chuck E. Weiss, who is Johnny Depp’s other owner half of L.A.’s Viper Room, notorious night club where River Phoenix died. put that in your coinky dink and smoke it.
flix fix: trailer park boys xmas special
finally some connecting of the dots, recommended though definitely not long enough to warrant all of the previews
